1989 Baltic human chain

34 years ago, on August 23, 1989, about two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined hands. They formed a human chain stretching through the three Baltic countries. 

It was a peaceful protest .

The  above image belongs to Sonja Eftimovska.

A picture from Belfast

My daughter has gone to Northern Ireland on holiday. She's has just sent me two pictures, which she has taken in the neighborhood of the Catholic community in Belfast. 

The first photo just above doesn't need any explaination.

Have a nice weekend 

 

Assumption of Mary

 

Every year, on August 15th, Christian people commemorate the death of the blessed virgin Mary. Ortodox Christian celebrate the Assumption of Mary on August 28. The Assumption is important to many Christians, Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans and Anglicans. 

I noticed some blogging friends, such as Dark Miryam   and Veronica Lee , have enjoyed my pictures of Italy, which I posted in my previous post. Maybe, some of them have already visited my country. 

The castle in the picture above was partly destroyed during World War II.

I took all the six pictures above while I was walking across Itri, a small city in Central Italy, not far from the Gulf of Gaeta.

 

As above mentioned, today is public holiday here in Italy. Fireworks will be set on the night. I hope the weather will not be cloudy.

Happy feast of the Assumption! 

1st week of August

I don't want to bore you with political comments about what is happening in Niger and other African countires. But I would like to mention just a few words spoken by Eritrea's president, Isaias Afwerki. He recently said that neocolonialism is a continuation of classical slavery. Neocolonialist powers will control the world for coming fifty years without anyone challenging them. Now we are at the crossroad, as a better world await people of the two continents of Africa and Asia, the largest and wealthiest landmass.

                                 (Picture of the main port in Tunisia taken in 2018)

The following pictures have nothing to do with African people who are tired that colonialists are always around.

On this sunny Sunday the first week of August goes to an end ☀️

In the early week of August I have noticed that beaches are not crowded as they should, although we are in the middle of the summer ⛵

My dinghy boat, is ready. It is powered by a low-horsepower outboard engine  ⚓

Sorry to see that some uncivilized people, who come here on holiday from Rome's worst neighborhoods, are still leaving waste on the street.

A cricket was looking for supper in my mother's garden 🦗

Meanwhile, a beautiful sailing ship has just docked here at the Italian port of Civitavecchia. 

Enjoy the rest of August!

Saint Peterburg's Russia-Africa summit

Russian President promises grains, debt write-off, as Russia's government seeks Africa allies. Moscow also promotes joint fight against global "neocolonialism".

African leaders, who are attending a summit in Saint Peterburg, agree on this.

Policy-makers' inconsistency

Walking across the port of my town I still see attack helicopters, which are ready to be shipped to East Europe. In other words, while the UN security council on Ukraine is held, Western countries continue to send weapons and military equipments to Kyiv. 

Meanwhile, American diplomat Victoria Nulan is visiting South Africa just before BRICS summit ... she will obviously be delivering threats of the largest arms exporter in the world. Easy to understand she will likely try to sabotage BRICS currency. 

On the illegal immigration front, mainstream media system doensn't tell us (Italians) that thousands of illegal immigrants are invading Italy. Another 500,000 are on the way. A real apocalypse. The Italian Prime Minister allows illegal immigrants to invade Italy. 500 a day. And they are all men handling Samsung mobile phones and wearing Adidas or Nike shoes.

If EU policy-makers wanted to help African people, they wouldn't steal human resources from Nigeria and Senegal. They would create job there, on the African continent.

Steve Hackett at Ostia

On the 8th of July the British guitarist and songwriter, Steve Hacket made a brilliant performance at the old Roman theatre of Ostia, which is located close to Rome.

I have made myself the gift of listening  Steve Hackett's superb sounding band. They played the most epic songs sung by Peter Gabriel. He also performed some songs from his solo albums, such as Spectral Morning and Voyage of the Acolyte.

Steve hackett gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis since 1971 to 1977. It seems he still is a guitar genius.

I enjoyed both the progressive rock concert and the beautiful archaelogical site surrounding the old Roman theatre, which was built at the end of the 1st century BC.

Sorry to see that some dumb people stole old bricks from the wall of the old Roman theatre (picture below).

Nice weekend to all the blogging community!